A 17-year-old girl from an Uttar Pradesh town is feared to have drowned after she slipped and fell into the Yamuna while taking a selfie.
Shivya Bhadoria, 17, was untraced since she went down to the Gopeshwar ghat on the riverbanks in Bateshwar to take a photograph of herself on Sunday. Her sisters saw her fall and jumped after her but could not find her. The two women had to be rescued from the river.
The three siblings had come to Bateshwar for a fair.
“A search is on but it may be too late,” said Vijay Singh, in-charge of the local Bah police station.
Sunday’s incident comes close on the heels of another such case earlier this month in Mathura district when two sisters fell while taking a selfie at a temple premises located on a 70 feet hillock in Barsana. Both escaped with minor injuries.
On December 3, 2016, a youth lost both his legs while trying to take a selfie in the moving Kaifiyat Express train near Tundla junction of Firozabad district.
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